I Realized Quotes - Page 36

• One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.

  Shirley Manson

  People, One Day, Matter

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• Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mother, Dog, Brother

  "The world according to Kurt". Interview with Simon Houpt, Globe and Mail (Toronto), October 11, 2005.

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• I realized I could do anything if I wanted it badly enough.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Enough, Wanted, Ifs

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• I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

  Derek Sivers

  Ideas, Bored, Trying

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• I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

  Sam Raimi

  Students, Film, One Thing

  "INTERVIEW: Sam Raimi Opens “The Gift,” Discovers Suspense Indiewood-Style". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. January 16, 2001.

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• At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid

  Annette Messager

  Stupid, Men, Proud

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• I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

  Len Wein

  Best Effort, Lenses, Judgment

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN PART ONE". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Children, Powerful

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• There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

  Rick Derringer

  Country, Guitar, White

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• Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.

  Mickey Rourke

  Mistake, Hands, Years

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• I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Education, College, Fields

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• Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

  Chuck Yeager

  Real, Sky, Experience

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Music, Country, Texas

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• So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

  Stephen Wolfram

  Nature, Years, Computer

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• I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

  Sheryl Lee

  Past, Done, Introspective

  "The Bliss of Being Sheryl Lee / The career of `Twin Peaks' ' famous corpse has come alive on screen". Interview with Edward Guthman, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 1997.

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• I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

  Lusia Strus

  Respect, Believe, Character

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• Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

  Michael Rosenbaum

  Men, Pigs, Strain

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• There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.

  Lance Armstrong

  Heart, Character, Winning

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.50, Random House

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• Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

  Andrew Wiles

  College, Umpires, People

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel.

  Julia Hill

  Animal, Vegetarian, Eating

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• I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself-in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Pain, Kindness, Reading

  Elizabeth Kim (2000). “Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan”

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• When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story . . .. I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph.

  Pearl Cleage

  Character, Angel, Play

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• I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.

  Victoria Finlay

  Agency, Ions, Dating

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.138, Ballantine Books

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• At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Cutting, Trying, Needs

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• During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.

  Alexa Hampton

  Wall, Father, Night

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